Engineering Manager

The role

You will lead a pod of 6 to 10 engineers to ship platform features for enterprise AI. You will manage people, hiring, delivery, quality, and on-call while staying hands-on with code and design reviews.

What you will do

• Lead a pod of 6 to 10 engineers including weekly 1:1s, career growth, and performance
• Stay hands-on by reviewing PRs, shipping code, and debugging production
• Turn roadmap bets into scoped work and maintain low cycle time
• Own quality and reliability through standards, tests, incidents, postmortems, and on-call
• Run the pod's interview loop and hire engineers
• Manage an AI-native team by reviewing load, agent-written code, and evals
• Partner with product, design, and the Chief Architect

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering
• 2+ years managing engineers
• Strong senior IC experience
• Experience growing a team at a startup
• Daily use of AI coding agents
• Fluent in Python or TypeScript
• Comfortable with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform)
• Direct communicator who gives hard feedback early and kindly
• Desire to manage people

Nice to have

• Early engineer at a startup that grew from seed through Series B or beyond
• Built security, identity, infrastructure or developer-tool products
• Shipped to enterprise buyers with strict security and compliance requirements
• Hands-on with MCP, agent frameworks or LLM-backed products
• For the Platform seat: carried a pager and run incident response for a production platform

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Paid vacation
• Paid sick leave
• Paid parental leave
• Budget for conferences, courses, and certifications
• Choice of laptop and accessories
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Customer interaction opportunities

About the company

Runlayer is a platform for MCPs, Skills, and Agents providing security, governance, and observability for enterprise AI. The company has raised $42M total and is trusted by companies like Gusto and Instacart.